How to change the color picker?

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bpy.types.UILayout.template_color_picker()
Can I somehow change the panel or is it outside the scope of the blender api?
I know that you can create your own color picker panel, but it will not work everywhere.

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What do you mean exactly by changing the color picker? Is it the mode of the picker (HSV and what not), or the actual color? Or maybe something different?

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I would like to add my own buttons, specifically the color palette, but I don’t know how to access this menu.

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I’m not aware of that bring exposed in the Python code, nor if it should be…
I think you’ll have better luck editing the source code, but I’m not fully sure if I’m 100% correct on this!

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Actually it is… see this:

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.props.html?highlight=floatvectorproperty#bpy.props.FloatVectorProperty

Write something like this in you code to define the property:

pdt_colour = FloatVectorProperty(name='Colour',subtype='COLOR',default=(0.5,0.5,0.9))

Note the subtype. Call it like this in a menu:

row.prop(scene, 'pdt_colour', text='Colour')

It looks like this in the menu:

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And this when you click on the Coloured Box:

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Cheers, Clock. :cocktail::grin:

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Wonderful, even better!

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Also @mac7ua, I forgot to say this, if you want the alpha as well, do this:

pdt_colour = FloatVectorProperty(name='Colour',subtype='COLOR_GAMMA',size=4,default=(0.5,0.5,0.9,1.0))

To get this:

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Cheers, Clock. :cocktail:

EDIT:

This used gamma corrected colour as an alternative…

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No, I want to do it. I think this is implemented outside of python.
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Sorry I cannot help you any more, I know of no method to re-create this using the API and Python.